How are the fares from DL captive airports?

I would imagine that many of the essential air service airports have reasonable fares as they are highly subsidized.

I don't think WYS is an essential air service airport, but fares to and from WYS can be 100% cheaper than BZN which has 6 airlines and is only 80 miles away.

I didn't mean no name as in low quality, I meant that I didn't know the name. :p If I get a client in FPO, I'll check Baer Air out! ^

And it's twice a week, not twice a day. :)

Yep. For those that are wondering, this is a reference to Matthew Broderick's character in the movie WarGames.

I have limited experience, but I'll give mine.

When looking into flights from TPA to MCN (Macon, GA), they were a bit higher than flights into ATL, but not much. And not nearly as high as flights from TPA to AVL, where DL has some competition.

When looking into late-June flights from SLE-MSY, I found that flights were roughly the same as most carriers flights from PDX-MSY, around $400.

My guess is that it probably has a lot to do with nearby competition. Both MCN and SLE are close to big airports with lots of carriers (ATL and PDX respectively).

I'll be comparing fares for TPA-SLE to fares for TPA-PDX a couple of times a year in the future. SLE is significantly closer to my parent's house, and only a few minutes from my grandmother's house. But PDX is only a few minutes from my brother's house. So I won't have a whole lot of incentive to choose SLE. The biggest problem right now is that the only SLC-TPA flight on the schedule is at 10:15 AM, which works fine for the 6:15 out of SLE, but we NEVER want to catch a flight that early when leaving Oregon. So until DL re-opens another SLC-TPA flight, I doubt we'll be flying out of SLE. Plus it's hard to justify flying on a CRJ out of SLE when I can get on mainline service PDX-ATL.

-Michael

I believe DL is the only carrier at ATL, am I correct?

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I think the worse thing is that I was logged on and about to make the EXACT same joke when I read yours...beat me to it...

GNV has Continental too.

Ooops, my bad - I meant to say "1-2 ..." :o

They're cutting back to 2 flights for the summer. (Note that I meant to say 1-2, not 12).

CVG-

For those of you who live in the Cincinnati area you'll appreciate that. It's worse than ATL.

Ed.

Well, I've flown into "one horse" airports TTN and ILG in the past month... :)

Almost forgot....TWF is also the sole DL carrier(operated by SkyWest)...I flew through there late last year....(so make that 3 on the list I've flown into! :cool: ).

Fares from MLB usually are higher than at MCO as T fares to markets I fly (BTR, MOB, MSY, NYC, SEA AND LON) generally don't have T fares.

However the difference is often only $30-40 so I'll save the gas/time and fly from MLB

Bump...

Trying to find some expensive DL Biz fares to the carribean and/or Hawaii to use up some TYP's.

Hopefully some biz fares out of DL-only airports are in the $4,200-$4,500 range!

Thanks for your input,
Bostonbali